John Carter (jazz musician)
John Wallace Carter (* September 24, 1929 in Fort Worth, † March 31, 1991 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz musician (clarinet, alto saxophone), music educator and composer.
Life and work
Carter played in the late 1940 in Fort Worth, together with Ornette Coleman and Charles Moffett senior and taught Julius Hemphill. After studying music at Lincoln University (Missouri ), he became a music educator. In 1961 he moved for professional reasons, to the West Coast. In 1965 he founded in Los Angeles a quartet with trumpeter Bobby Bradford ( " New Art Jazz Ensemble" ), but also played with Hampton Hawes and Harold Land. From 1972, he led his own groups.
Carter was a member of the woodwind ensembles by James Newton since 1980. After made at the invitation of Joachim Ernst Berendt in Europe experience in a Clarinet Summit with Perry Robinson, Gianluigi Trovesi, Ernst- Ludwig Petrovsky, Bernd Konrad and Theo Jörgensmann he founded in 1981 with Alvin Batiste, Jimmy Hamilton and David Murray another, American Clarinet Summit. After his time as a music teacher, he founded a special wind College in Culver City, which had an international reputation for the training of brass. Among his students there is one example of the Dutch wind Ab Baars.
In the 1980s, he wrote five suites for octet (each on CD published), which he titled Roots and Folklore: summarizing Episodes in the Developement of American Folk Music, and the history of African Americans constitute convincing - - of the slave hunts up today. With this series of suites he wrote American music history. In his compositions, it was Carter also about finding the balance between the white, African-American and continental African music.
Just as James Newton, Andrew Cyrille, Marty Ehrlich and Mark Dresser in the U.S. is devoted to Europe, the Ab Baars Trio compositions by Carter and keep it in the repertoire.
Auswahldiskographie
- John Carter & Bobby Bradford 's New Art: Flight for Four ( 1969)
- Seeking ( Revelation, 1969)
- John Carter Quintet: Secrets (1972 )
- Clarinet Summit: You better fly away (1979 ) with P. Robinson, G. Trovesi, Th Jörgensmann, Eje Thelin, Didier Lockwood, Stan Tracey, Kai Kanthak, JF Jenny -Clark, Günter " Baby" Sommer, Aldo Romano
- John Carter: Suite of Early American Folk Pieces ( 1980)
- Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree Vol 1 (1989)
Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Developement of American Folk Music
- The John Carter Octet: Dauwhe (1982 )
- John Carter: Castles of Ghana ( 1985)
- John Carter: Dance of the Love Ghosts ( 1987)
- John Carter: Fields ( 1988)
- John Carter: Shadows On A Wall (1989 )
Swell
- Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, & Brian Priestley. Jazz Rough Guide. ISBN 3-476-01584- X
- Dita Von Szadkowski. Transgressions jazz and musical environment of the 80s. ISBN 3-596-22977-4